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"Modern canine nutrition demands we trust the science more so than actually understand it because to pull back the curtain just a little reveals the magic show for what it is – a very clever illusion."

From the vet health professional to canine professional to the avid canine enthusiast, Feeding Dogs is a fascinating, at times shocking and utterly essential portrayal of canine nutrition today. With a clear and tangible passion for the subject but with an entertaining, highly readable style, Dr Conor Brady forensically translates the available research on a great variety of topics, detailing for us not only what dogs should eat but what they are currently being fed. Crucially, modern diet strategies are linked to many of the diseases that plague our pets today, including obesity, cancer, pancreatitis and bloat. As the scientific and corporate tricks reveal themselves, the fantasy of a 'complete' diet falls away, replaced with the knowledge that formulating a balanced dog diet by ourselves is not only uncomplicated but utterly essential to their health and longevity.
With more than 500 pages and 1200 references, Feeding Dogs is the most thorough examination of the canine nutrition debate to date. Over four large sections, it provides:

Section 1: An examination of what the dog consumes when left to his own devices and the biological and physiological machinery that facilitates that process.
Section 2: A thorough presentation of the major issues with ultra-processed kibble including the effects of excessive carbohydrates, insufficient protein, erratic nutrient contents and hazardous microbiology on the health of the dog. All these chapters will be a first for most vets. Also, for the first time, the scientific evidence in support of raw feeding is collated including head-to-head studies that examine both dry and raw-fed dog populations and the effects of poor nutrition on behaviour.
Section 3: A staggering reveal of the problems in the veterinary sector, from the gross lack of adequate nutritional training and regulation of the pet food sector to the pseudoscience that is currently being fed to us by the industry.
Section 4: An expansive description of what might constitute the ideal canine diet might look like. From a fascinating dissection of what balance means to a thorough exploration of what ingredient and why, Dr Conor Brady presents new insights that will keep both amateur and raw-pro gripped to the end (and what an end!).

Each chapter comes with a complete bibliography and handy take-home points.

Finally! A well-written, well-referenced, thorough examination of the raw dog food debate. Dr. Brady provides a detailed summary of all the issues, leaving the reader well-educated and ready to engage in a knowledgable conversation with raw-ignorant or naive pet professionals looking for more information. A fantastic gift for your favourite veterinarian.
Dr. Karen Becker, DVM

“In this masterfully researched and written exposé, Conor Brady details the raw truth about canine nutrition; why dry dog food is so damaging, how modern research is designed to sell product, never to find truth, and the enormous benefits that only a fresh raw and whole food diet can provide. A valuable addition to the serious raw feeder’s library.”
Dr. Ian Billinghurst, best-selling author of Give Your Dog a Bone

“This remarkable book is the first of its kind. Researched comprehensively and meticulously detailed, it remains pleasantly readable and credible to the academic and home raw food enthusiast alike. It is a must for everyone with even a passing interest in species-appropriate nutrition for dogs. Dr. Nick Thompson, Founder of the Raw Feeding Vet Society

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"Finally! A well-written, well-referenced, thorough examination of the raw dog food debate. Dr. Brady provides a detailed summary of all the issues, leaving the reader well-educated and ready to engage in a knowledgable conversation with raw-ignorant or naive pet professionals looking for more information. A fantastic gift for your favourite veterinarian."

Dr. Karen Becker, DVM

"In this masterfully researched and written exposé, Conor Brady details the raw truth about canine nutrition; why dry dog food is so damaging, how modern research is designed to sell product, never to find truth, and the enormous benefits that only a fresh raw and whole food diet can provide. A valuable addition to the serious raw feeder's library."

Dr. Ian Billinghurst, best-selling author of Give Your Dog a Bone

"This remarkable book is the first of its kind. Researched comprehensively and meticulously detailed, it remains pleasantly readable and credible to the academic and home raw food enthusiast alike. It is a must for everyone with even a passing interest in species-appropriate nutrition for dogs.

Dr. Nick Thompson, Founder of the Raw Feeding Vet Society

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After college, I spent five years in guide dogs as a pup supervisor and guide dog trainer. It was while I was working in Guide Dogs in Australia that the true powers of raw feeding came to light. That was 14 years ago. The time since, bar a couple of years as a producer myself, I have spent as a full-time writer, speaker and dedicated advocate for natural canine food and health, much of which you can find at my website www.dogsfirst.ie. As a dog lover and keen researcher, the subject fascinated and consumes me, providing me with near bottomless rabbit holes that demand exploration. I live with my wife and daughter in Wicklow, Ireland and am proud father to a to a slightly odd blue roan cocker called Dudley. What he lacks in brains and finesse he makes up with single-minded determination, though that statement is equally true for the both of us. Dr Conor Brady, BSc. PhD. Anim. Behav.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrow Road Publishing (20 December 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 538 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1916234003
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916234000
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 3.1 x 25.4 cm

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After college, I spent 5 years in guide dogs as a pup supervisor and guide dog trainer. Fourteen years ago while I was working in Guide Dogs Australia, the true powers of raw feeding came to light. Since then, bar a couple of years as a producer myself, I have been a full-time writer, speaker and dedicated advocate for natural canine food and health (available at my website www.dogsfirst.ie). As a dog lover and keen researcher, the subject fascinates and consumes me, providing me with near bottomless rabbit holes that demand exploration. I live with my wife and daughter in Wicklow, Ireland, and am proud father to a slightly odd blue roan cocker called Dudley. What he lacks in brains and finesse he makes up with single-minded determination, although that statement is equally true for the both of us.
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LeanneS

Essential reading for every dog owner

Reviewed in Australia on 18 February 2021

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I couldn’t read this book fast enough. It’s rather science-y so best ingested in small chunks to aid proper digestion. This book establishes the case for species appropriate diet, reveales the horrors of the ‘fast-dogfood’ industry and then lays out the way forward should you choose to change the menu for your dogs. I’d say it’s essential reading for every dog owner.

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Lynne Fitzsimmons

Awesome reference and educative tool for dog owners .

Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2021

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To actually have the scientifically substantiated argument in support of raw feeding our dogs is just a relief .
Somewhere to send the uneducated to learn .
It will change the quality of life and longevity of thousands of dogs the world over .
I thank the author and acknowledge his dedication to the well being of dogs everywhere .

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Martyn

At last, a raw feeding book based on canine nutritional science..

Reviewed in Australia on 18 February 2021

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One of the very few science based investigations into raw feeding for dogs. Thorough and well referenced. A joy to be able to refer to a range of arguments and their basis, for feeding real food to dogs rather than the 'kibble cardboard' that has for the last 6 decades at least, compromised dogs' lifespans and life quality.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 March 2021

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If you want to get really informed about Raw Feeding and Kibble, this book is worth buying. It is backed by all the science to keep everyone happy. The author has done an incredible job collecting all the data and then putting it simple to read.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2021

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Brilliantly researched, this book contains a wealth of information for all dog owners and professionals.
Dr Conor Brady’s writing style makes for an easy, yet informative read.

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Miriam A.

All dog parents and Vets need to read this

Reviewed in Australia on 1 August 2021

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Excellent information properly researched, well referenced , easy to read, a must have for dog owners and Vets.

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Tania Brady

Ive been looking for this book for years

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Ive wanted a concise raw feeding 'manual' for a long time, and here it is. My dogs will thank you

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AndrewC

Flawed but brilliant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2021

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It is clear that humans we create institutions that wreak havoc on human and animal lives, institutions that are indifferent to wellbeing or harm, truth or falsehood, and have the inertia of a cargo ship whenever anyone seeks to alter their course. This book is
mainly an account of this phenomenon occurring in what could be termed the ‘pet food/human food/veterinary industrial complex’. He exposes the contradictions, compromised values, and conflicts of interest tacit in so much of what is taught and published in the world of animal nutrition.

Feeding Dogs is an interesting and absorbing read. It segues often into the world of human diet, the integrity of human research, and corporate indifference to human harm when there is profit to be had, and this makes the book about so much more than dog food! At over 500 large pages it is a weighty tome
of a book, but its length and dimensions belie how readable it is: it is very well structured, its sequence is logical, and it provides a surprisingly page-turning experience. In this way Conor Brady is to the pet food industry as Ben Goldacre is to Big Pharma, and Gary Taubes is to (Big) sugar, and he writes as well as both of them.

This is is a thoroughgoing and extremely well researched book- most chapters have 100 references or more. However, Dr Brady’s authority was undermined in places by some disquieting elements: His introductory reference to a personal epiphany when connected to the scientifically dubious Vega machine; his references to anti-vaccine literature (which to be fair all appear scientifically valid); and worst his two page defence of homeopathy.

In In one passage he favourably compared theories explaining the apparent ability of dogs to detect scent at the impossible molecular concentrations in homeopathic preparations as being akin to the relationship of evidence and for the existence of dark matter. Can we assume the homeopaths’ methodology to be as robust as the mathematically precise measurement and calculations that are possible in physics? How exactly did they assess the positive detection of scent by a mute canine subject? We are not told. By this point I was glad I had earlier read his description of the Andrew Wakefield/MMR/autism fiasco, where he roundly condemns this fraudulent and damaging work, or I would have been worried more by all of this credulity.

Unfortunately it was when the book moved
on to present the counter-case for the positive benefits of a raw food diet for dogs that I almost revised my positive opinion of the book altogether. In his discussion of phytochemicals he glibly asides that remedies like these ‘won’t be recommended by your doctor, for some reason’. This is despite the fact that in the immediately preceding list of
phyochemicals was aspirin, probably one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world! If he has read much of Ben Goldacre he should be familiar with the principle that as soon as a herbal or any other alternative remedy becomes supported by properly conducted science it leaves the world of ‘alternative medicine’ and becomes just ‘medicine’. It gets worse still when he uncritically expounds the reason for feeding particular organs as part of a raw food diet (some termed excretory organs, despite many having nothing to do with excretion). He implies eating pancreas could help ‘diabetic doggies’, that eating an adrenal gland is somehow good because it contains epinephrine, and that neutered dogs should eat testes to replace lost hormones! He also gives a shameless plug for his own seaweed based products, backed with no evidence, just a ‘money back guarantee’- this was a particular low point.

More generally when it comes to the case for raw food he offers very precise recommendations without any convincing evidence to back them up- which is exactly basis of much of the criticism he levels at the dry food industry. He is open about this but doesn’t let the intrinsic contradiction stop his evangelising. His theoretical case rests on the same argument as that used by advocates of the Paleo fad diet for humans, even though he accepts there has been some evolution of dogs toward omnivorous abilities under the Darwinian selection pressure of domestication.

I guess for me it was probably enough for him to have demolished the sham of pet food marketing, and to have exposed the nonsense the whole enormous industry is built on. I was persuaded at that point, and did not need the wool pulling over my eyes to convince me that an alternative might be better.

Some typos and scientific inaccuracies irritated and I hope mentioning them might prompt correction for subsequent editions:‘Dilated Cardio Myopathy’ (dilated cardiomyopathy), Animal Zoo Pharmacognosy (I presume animal zoopharmacognosy). The glycolytic pathway burns glycogen, not glucose, glycogen is not found in blood, and taurine is not a protein.

I don’t think I have ever written such a long review, which is testament to how stimulating I found this book. It was clearly a labour of love for the author to complete, and it is an incredible piece of work; I wouldn’t wish my criticisms to detract from this. The final FAQ about vegetarian diets for dogs was particularly erudite: a stand-alone essay both giving the answer for curious owners, and outlining the difficult challenge of making dog ownership align with the demands of climate change. To read a vegetarian dog lover’s account of this was a brilliant moment, and was a fittingly eloquent and important epilogue to a tour de force of a book.

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Brilliant , from start to finish . A must buy book .

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2021

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Dr Conor Brady’s book is a must for any dog owner , and especially for those with an interest in how nutrition is the very key stone to their dog’s health .
I’m an RVN (vet nurse) , and would strongly encourage all of of my Veterinary colleagues to read this book . For far too long our profession has been governed by the pet food industry , it’s time that ended , and Feeding Dogs will show you why .
Conor writes beautifully, it’s easy to read , with a connection to the author , and it’s researched and referenced to perfection .
If you’re hesitant to buy , don’t be , you will not be disappointed.

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Jude McCoy

Outstanding - this should be on the must read list for dog owners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2020

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I haven't been able to put this book down! It's simply outstanding and a must read for all dog owners. I'd go so far as to say it should be required reading for vets. Written in a friendly and engaging style, with wit and humour, it is nonetheless backed by science, meticulously researched with numerous referenced studies. This book will change how you think about what you feed your pets!

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J. McLaren

Amazing!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2021

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Absolutely fantastic! A MUST READ
A massive book that I am still wading through. It is SO informative, well written, witty, understandable and balanced. I have been feeding raw for about 9 years now, and have learnt a lot, and it has reaffirmed a lot of my decisions over the years too. Its a deep read with a lot of information, yet not too 'text booky' that makes it impossible to understand. SHOULD BE READ BY ALL VETERINARY PEOPLE REGARDLESS IF THEY FEEED RAW OR NOT - in fact especially if they don't feed raw! Suitable for absolute beginners and people wanting to learn more, right through to 'us' that thought we knew most of it - we don't! lol
Thanks Conor for your years of work you have put it to allow us dog mums the chance to learn it in a few weeks!

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Rachel

A true masterpiece and the most wonderful gift to the dog world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2021

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I have followed dogsfirst.ie for years, always impressed by the insightful information shared -backed with evidence and easily understood. As you can imagine I was most looking forward to this book by Dr Conor Brady. Well it has surpassed my expectations. Easily read and backed by scientific evidence with numerous studies cited. This was an utter joy to read and learn more about the true issues within the pet food sector. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone, especially veterinary professionals.

This book covers many of the common health complaints in our dogs, and offers much insight into why they're increasing, and how they can be improved.

A book that will give you not only knowledge but will inspire you do better.

A true masterpiece and the most wonderful gift to the dog world - Thank you Dr Conor Brady.

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